Mind Wide Open

writing & consciousness

[jamesleech]

Crooked Channel, Folded Temple

Two paintings for the Globe & Mail - David Gratzer, an attending physician at CAMH writes about what led us to a crisis of mental illness and potential paths towards meaningful change.

Big thanks to AD Ming Wong 🙏 These two originals are available in my shop.

[klindicative]

[stvkmco-deactivated20240213]

art.pupp

[incidentalcomics]

How will you make the leap in your creative life? 

 From my book The Shape of Ideas: An Illustrated Exploration of Creativity, newly reissued by Abrams Books

[allthingslinguistic]

The International Phonetic Alphabet consonants found in English, with keywords and relevant parts of the mouth highlighted and colour-coded. (Source.) 

[pervocracy]

Pronouncing each of these in sequence is a very strange and amusing physical sensation, and I highly recommend it.

[elodieunderglass]

haha look it’s where those noises live in your dang FACE, TRY IT

[elamarth-calmagol]

Very helpful actually

[paulettejosatelier]

I really liked this sketchbook spread. I want to paint the back and ass view pose some more ♥︎

Timelapse video here |  Sketchbook tour here |  Join my KUPI club

[wytrykusarchives]

The Milt Kahl Head Swaggle (Source: Cartoon Brew)

[spootywabbit]

I love it when you can pick up an animator’s quirks. 

[kaseylgifford]

     I’ve read in old interviews with Milt Khal’s fellow animators that he did the swaggle to purposefully show off. Moving the head in 3-d space is an exceptionally hard thing to do but Khal upped the level of difficulty to a place many animators wouldn’t go.      Not only are they all doing the swaggle you’ll notice they are all TALKING while they are doing it. This is back in the days where you had to use a timing sheet to pace your animation and a head swaggle doesn’t work if its too slow or too fast so he had to figure out the right speed so it looked natural while the character finishes what they have to say while not interfering with the distinct mouth shapes.       Not only did Khal do it without any shifting weight problems or timing issues he would often do it while moving the rest of the body. This isn’t his signature move just because he was good at it.This is his signature move because he was one of the only people skilled enough to DO IT AT ALL.

Milt Khal was a MASTER.

[riverthunder]

God, I can’t express to you how fucking DELIGHTED I become whenever they Milt Khal Head Swaggle Post graces my dash with its presence again.

[oldpaintings]

Jules-François-Félix Husson, aka Champfleury 

Les chats, 1869 (various artists)

[galina]

Some corners of Edinburgh, this kind of architecture paired with the hills really reminds me of home

[paulettejosatelier]

texture

[detailsofpaintings]

Workshop of Rubens, Anne d’Autriche, reine de France (detail)

c. 1625

[oldpaintings]

Jubilee Procession in a Cornish Village, June 1897 (Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee) by George Sherwood Hunter (Scottish, 1846–1919)

[tanadrin]

I can’t imagine the balls it takes to be a Russian anti-war protester right now. Good for them.

[tanadrin]

#i hope they’re being safe and careful 

Right now, holding up a sign in St. Petersburg condemning this war is the textbook definition of “neither safe nor careful.”

But they’re proving to anybody in Russia who thought they were the only ones who opposed this war, that they’re not, and reminding the rest of the world that a government is not the people it claims to represent, and I am deeply moved by their courage.

[twoweeks]

https://www.instagram.com/p/CCjP-hNHtT0

[annedebretagneduchesseensabots]

Jardins du Vatican

[estudioartefacto]

Material magazine

[hobo-shades-blog]